Germany

Germany’s ‘Summer Of Reforms’ To Accelerate Militarization

July 18, 2026 Matthew Read, BreakThrough News. Educate! Austerity, Finance and the Economy, Germany, Militarization

In the shadow of the FIFA World Cup, the German government – a coalition of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) – is pushing through a self-described “summer of reforms” that it promises will revive the stagnating economy and keep Germany “competitive” in a changing world. In practice, Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s program amounts to a comprehensive offensive against workers’ rights, social provision, and democratic participation. In recent months alone, the government has advanced plans to slash health services, push back the retirement age, extend the working day beyond eight hours, and begin privatizing pensions.

Weaponizing Civil Death To Crush Dissidents

July 2, 2026 The Chris Hedges Report. Resistance Report European Union (EU), Germany, Huseyin Dogru, Palestine, Press Freedom, Sanctions

The war on information in the West has tread new grounds since the genocide in Palestine. Journalists and media outlets who report on the imperialist endeavors of the ruling class increasingly find themselves under the boot of legislators who concoct fascist legislation to act as imperial henchmen. Their methods are stretching the limits of the law with the scope and severity of the punishments imposed. Nowhere is this repression more apparent than in Germany where, since October 7 of 2023, governments have banned languages and symbols related to Palestine and many people, not only journalists but also professors, doctors and lawyers, have lost their jobs for speaking out against the genocide or participating in pro-Palestine demonstrations.

German Students Expand Strike Against Conscription, Militarization

May 15, 2026 Henriette Kleiner, People's Dispatch. Resist! conscription, Germany, Militarization, Strikes, Student Activism

On May 8, 45,000 students joined a school strike against conscription and militarization in 150 cities across the country. The strike was held on the 81st anniversary of Victory Day, which brought peace to Europe at the end of World War II. This was the third school strike since December 5, 2025, the day the new conscription law was passed unanimously by the German parliament, the Bundestag. In Berlin, around 7,500 students marched from Brandenburger Tor to the headquarters of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU), the party of current Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

We Have To Restore People’s Confidence In Collective Strength

May 6, 2026 German Foreign Policy, People's Dispatch. Strategize! Arizona government, Belgium, Colonialism, Far-right in Europe, Germany, Palestine Solidarity, Russia–Ukraine war, US Imperialism

In a recent interview with German Foreign Policy, Peter Mertens talks about the wave of protests in Belgium against the erosion of workers’ rights and social standards, which has been ongoing for more than a year. Mertens is an author and General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PVDA-PTB), which has participated in the trade union-led demonstrations and strikes from the outset and is currently the strongest party in the capital region of Brussels, polling at more than a quarter of the vote. Mertens argues that the link between social protests and the fight against militarization is obvious: “It is the same people who are footing the bill for both”; this is “impossible to ignore”.

‘Kuffiyehs In Buchenwald’ Campaign Challenges Germany’s Anti-Palestinian Culture Of Remembrance

March 31, 2026 Leon Wystrychowski, Mondoweiss. Resist! Censorship, culture, Germany, Kuffiyehs, State Repression

For more than ten years now, Germany has seen a large-scale campaign against alleged antisemitism that in reality targets nothing more than criticism of Zionism – or even criticism of Israeli policy. This campaign has been driven primarily by the major political parties, the mainstream media, and several foundations, and initially focused above all on the arts and cultural sectors. Those targeted included the Cameroonian historian Achille Mbembe, the U.S. philosopher Judith Butler, the Israeli sociologist Moshe Zuckermann, the former director of the Jewish Museum Berlin Peter Schäfer, the British musician Roger Waters, and the late Syrian artist Burhan Karkutli. F

School Strike In Germany: 50,000 Against Military Service

March 7, 2026 Nathaniel Flakin, Left Voice. Resist! Anti-war Movement, conscription, Germany, Strikes, Student Activism

At 11:00 am, teenagers started flooding Potsdamer Platz. They came from schools around the city, marching in groups of 50 or 100, waving banners and banging drums. “Not one person and not one penny for the Bundeswehr,” they chanted. “I don’t want to die for a country that doesn’t offer me anything,” said Karl, 18, a student at Evangelische Schule Berlin Zentrum in Mitte. “They talk about protecting us while cutting funding for education and culture.” On January 1, Germany’s military began sending out questionnaires to people born in 2008 as they turn 18 this year.

Militarization Is Spreading Through Germany’s Health Sector

February 1, 2026 Peoples Health Dispatch, People's Dispatch. Educate! Germany, Health Care, Militarization, Privatization

At this point, in Germany, public funds are being used not only for defense, but also for shaping public attitudes. The Bundeswehr (the German armed forces) now publishes official videos showing German soldiers at night, by firelight, shouting “hurrah” when their general tells them they are working toward becoming “capable of winning.” The German army wants to win again. Beware, Europe. When they discuss a possible war, officials speak of the “Eastern Front,” and the “enemy” in public debate is clearly Russia – often personalized as Vladimir Putin. In our view, this taps into old anti-Russian sentiments and is becoming increasingly irrational.

Germans Are Not Falling In Line For The New Military Draft

January 6, 2026 Edward Hasbrouck, Waging Nonviolence. Resist! Draft, Germany, Militarization, Youth Activism

On Dec. 5, the German Bundestag gave its final approval to a law that, beginning in 2026, will require all German men to fill out a registration form for military service when they reach age 18. Responses to the questionnaire will be used to generate a list of potential draftees to be used if military conscription is activated. On the day of the vote in the Bundestag, 5,000 people attended an anti-draft march in Berlin , with thousands more rallying in Hamburg and other cities. A School Strike Against the Draft also involved students in at least 90 cities and towns throughout Germany.

Germany: Imprisoned ‘Palestine Action’ Activists Face Harassment

December 29, 2025 Leon Wystrychowski, Middle East Monitor. Resist! Elbit, Germany, Palestine, Palestine Action, State Repression, Ulm 5

For years, Palestine activists in Germany have looked to Britain with a sense of astonishment. The state that promised Palestine to Zionist settler colonialism in the 1917 Balfour Declaration is scarcely less pro-Israel than the Federal Republic of Germany, with its so-called Staatsräson (‘reason of state‘) that proclaims unconditional solidarity with Israel – albeit without ever having been codified into law. And yet, solidarity in Britain appears – at least from this vantage point – to be more vibrant, broader, and above all more effective.

Germany: Critics Of The Government Are Losing Their Bank Accounts

December 24, 2025 Leon Wystrychowski, People's Dispatch. Educate! AntiFa, Communist Party of Germany (DKP), Cuba solidarity, Germany, Palestine Solidarity, Repression

The German Communist Party (DKP) announced earlier this month that several associated bank accounts (including that of the party executive) will be terminated as of December 31, 2025. The reasons for the account termination remain unclear and the act in itself raises more questions than answers. The case has also drawn attention to a trend in Germany that appears to be resurfacing more and more: attacks on the material foundations of actors who criticize the German government, and especially its policies on war.

European Security Includes Russia

December 20, 2025 Jeffrey Sachs, Consortium News. Strategize! Germany, NATO, Russia, Security guarantees, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

Security guarantees are not one-way instruments. They go in both directions. This is not a Russian argument, nor an American one; it is a foundational principle of European security, explicitly embedded in the Helsinki Final Act, the OSCE framework, and decades of postwar diplomacy. Germany has a duty to approach this moment with historical seriousness and honesty. On that score, recent rhetoric and policy choices fall dangerously short. Since 1990, Russia’s core security concerns have been repeatedly dismissed, diluted or directly violated — often with Germany’s active participation or acquiescence.

Students On Strike Against Military Service

December 8, 2025 Franziska Kleiner, People's Dispatch. Resist! Germany, Militarization, Military Recruitment, Student Activism

Around 55,000 high school students skipped school on Friday, December 5, and went on strike in 90 cities across Germany, after a broad alliance of organizations, including local student councils, called for a school strike against compulsory military service. The strike had been organized for weeks: students founded strike committees at their schools, painted posters, wrote speeches, mobilized their friends and resisted the repression by school administrations across the country. The strike was called for December 5 to coincide with the time when the federal cabinet passed the so-called Military Service Modernization Act.

Security Council Shamefully Grants Colonial Domination Over Palestine

November 23, 2025 Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. Educate! Genocide, Germany, International Court of Justice (ICJ), International Law, Legal System, Palestine, United Nations

In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly committed the UN’s original sin when it partitioned Palestine to create Israel. This launched the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of the Indigenous people, and the establishment of a settler colonial state. Now, 78 years later, the UN Security Council has committed the UN’s second cardinal sin. It enshrined Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian lands, put its imprimatur on Israel’s genocide, and granted colonial control over the lives of the Palestinians to the United States, which has aided and abetted the genocide.

Did Germany Mislead The World Court?

November 23, 2025 Leon Wystrychowski, People's Dispatch. Educate! Gaza, Genocide, Germany, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Occupation, Nicaragua, Operation Al Aqsa Flood, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity

Since April 2024, Germany has been on trial before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. Nicaragua had filed a case against the Federal Republic, accusing it of complicity in the genocide in Gaza. As has now become known, German representatives may have made false statements in their very first testimony before the ICJ in April 2024, concerning the arms exports delivered to Israel. As Drop Site News (DSN) and the liberal German magazine Stern reported in a joint article, there are now serious doubts about Germany’s statements. They cite comments from the German Defense Ministry, obtained through a press law procedure before a German administrative court.

Francesca Albanese Names Over 60 States Complicit In Gaza Genocide

October 30, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! complicity, Francesca Albanese, Gaza, Genocide, Germany, International Law, Israel, Palestine, United Nations (UN)

The UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, told the General Assembly on 28 October that 63 countries, including key western and Arab states, have fueled or were complicit in “Israel’s genocidal machinery” in Gaza. Speaking remotely from the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation in Cape Town, Albanese presented her 24-page report, ‘Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime,’ which she said documents how states armed, financed, and politically protected Tel Aviv as Gaza’s population was “bombed, starved, and erased” for over two years. Her findings place the US at the center of Israel’s war economy, accounting for two-thirds of its weapons imports and providing diplomatic cover through seven UN Security Council vetoes.

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